Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-13
TOM ocHILTREE.
How He Bankrupted the Houston
 Post a Few Years Ago.

Post Few Years Ago.
 Col. Tom Ochitroe, who is how the press ageut for Buffalo Bills show. is growing very fond of his work He says it makes him long to get back to journalism, and be thinks of writing a weekly New York letter to out town Sunday uapers. Col. Ochiltree once rank. cd as one ot the most brilliant journalists in the Southwest He was editor at different times ot va riouS newspapers in Texas, the last being inc Houston Post. The Texan told q party of friends the other day the singular way in which he came to leave journal ism. Besides being editor of the last named paper, he also owned q controlling interest Ill the stock. While connected with this paper he went to Paris to attend the ex. position
 .'James Gordon Bennett" sald the colonel, went over on the steamer with me, and We became quite intimate. Bennett was al- ready acquainted with the leading 2 men in Paris while my acquain- tanee was exceedingly limited. So was exceedingly glad when Ben nett expressed wish that | should be his constant companion while in the French capital. l expected, Of course, that should be com pletely overshadowed by Bonnet, as the Herald was famous, while my paper. the Houston Post, was uuknown. In going the rounds of the clubs with Bennett ] was in- troduced to ali the big guns of Par is While Bonnet was treated with the most distinguished considera- tion, l. to my amaZement, was made just as much of. Those people over there seemed to have no idea of this country Of magnificent dis tances, and they thought that the Houston Post was published ust across the street from the New York Herald. Probably because I was with Bennett they thought that my paper was every bit as inn portant as his. l did not take the trouble to change their impression. There was nothing in Paris too good for me, and l had no end of invitations to dine from the best people in the city. Every thing went on swimingly until the day of the opening of the eXposi ton. Bennett had been telling around what fine report he was going to have cabled to the Herald. We'll on the afternoon of that day Bennett aud I, with lot of big guns, were stroliing down the boulevard on our way to dinner at Victor Hugo's, when the cores. poudent of the Herald came up to 
 Mr Bennett aud handed him his report of the exposition. Cable. grams were then one dollar per word, and Bennett had to file the dispatch personally. He said he would have 10 go to the telegraph office before going to Hugo's. and we all volunteered to accompany him. When we reached the place we learned that the dispatch would come too nearly S10,00o. The Frenchman naryeied at the great enterprise of the Herald, and they looked at me, evidently wondering why the great Houston Post did not follow suit. l real ized had to do something or my reputation as journalist would suffer, so l turned to Bennett and said:
 "Jim, have taat dispatch dnpli- cated to the Houston Post
 He did so. and when re. turned home l found that the sheriff had sold out my interest in the paper to pay the telegraph bill aud l was compelled 10 go down 10 Salyeston and beat the Demo. cratic nominee for a seat in con. gross. ."-Ex.